Ethan Canin Quotes

I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.

Ethan Canin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 19, 1960

Topics

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Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.

Joe Lonsdale

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Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

Jim Hightower

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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

Jesse Jackson

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I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

John Chamberlain

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When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

Jenna Fischer

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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

John Cheever

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I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Anna Kendrick

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Minimal art went nowhere.

Sol LeWitt

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I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

Tony Hawk

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Maybe bitcoin is a kind of a bubble. I don't like it. I'm not comfortable with it. I'm kind of an old dog to be absorbing that kind of a new trick.

Lloyd Blankfein

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In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

Lois Capps

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A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.

Jason Flemyng

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